The Monday 2005-05-16 at 05:57 -0300, Ariel Sabiguero Yawelak wrote:
Don't! Simply delete or move them. Never use "reject".
Q: Can I delete SPAM and reject NON-SPAM misspelled mail addresses ?
The problem I have found is that bussines people don't want their customers to miss them! I believe that many of you need to handle virtuals like
That's a different case from the original poster's, he is not running his own mail service (smtp server). In that case, postfix, sendmail, qmail, whatever, will usually reject wrong addresses. Also, wrong user part addresses (before the @) can be forwarded to a catchall username. That's different from a user running SA rejecting email: his own address will be on the rejection slip, so he is on one hand saying that address A does not exist, and on the other using the same address A to send that! He might as well post a 'spam me' notice worldwide, would be more "effective".
jd jdoe johndoe john_doe john.doe doej doejohn doe_john
all pointing to the same account, but they also want rejects to be sent to the sender so they know that the mail didn't reach the intended recipient... all of which is true and valid without spam. Is it possible to handle both things smoothly?
Uff. It the mail volume is small, you can forward all those to a catchall address, then have somebody scan them and forward to the appropriate person - with a good spam filter. Or simply return a "unknown user" or "unknown address" return code, and have the originator think again and use the correct address. This is the typical method, more practical. Notice that when the smtp server rejects an email, it is [usually] before getting the contents of the email. There is no chance to analyze if it is a virus or spam, it is rejected in the negotiation phase. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson